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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:38PM (#35456867)
> Most all of them are blue, even in deep red states, yet SF and LA are the only cities I know of with homelessness and crime being this bad.

Your impressions are, bluntly, wrong.

LA and San Francisco have the 32nd and 37th highest violent crime rates out of the top 100 largest cities in the US, and the 72nd and 7th in overall crime rates. Homelessness, driven by lack of development combined with the the attraction and generation of concentrated wealth is a real California statewide problem (though there are plenty of non-California cities with serious problems, NYC is nearly as bad as LA, and far worse than San Francisco, in terms of population share that is homeless.)

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by isubkhankulov on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:20AM (#35465312)
"homeless and crime" are usually associated with property crime such as larceny.

SF is 4th highest in the United States for larceny rates. Note that larceny is the most frequent type of property crime per the FBI.

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